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Clive Cussler's astounding "Devil's Gate" sees the return of Kurt Austin and the NUMA team. Deep beneath the Eastern Atlantic Ocean lies an extraordinary underwater burial ground of ships and planes...Nearby, a Japanese cargo ship blows up without warning. Racing to help, Kurt Austin and the NUMA team are beaten to the scene by heavily armed pirates. But when the ruthless gang's own boat explodes as they're making their escape, the men from NUMA are suddenly plunged from a disaster into a mystery. Soon they uncover a scheme involving the deadly ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of terrible power, a kidnapped CERN scientist and a deep-water graveyard holding a lost aircraft and its precious cargo. As a terrifying and audacious plan to bring the world's major nations to their knees is set in motion, only Kurt Austin - the right man, in the right place, at the right time - can stop it. With "Devil's Gate", UK number one bestseller Clive Cussler shows us once more why he is the grand master of adventure fiction. The ninth book in Clive Cussler's bestselling NUMA Files series, "Devils' Gate" is a novel that will have readers gripped right to the last page.
Kurt Austin, hero of previous titles "Medusa" and "The Navigator", must avert a disaster of global proportions. Praise for Clive Cussler: "Clive Cussler is the guy I read". (Tom Clancy). "The Adventure King". ("Sunday Express"). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept millions of readers hooked with adventures at sea, exotic locations, cutting-edge science and page-turning pace for four decades. As well as the "NUMA Files" series there are also the "Oregon Files", "the Dirk Pitt stories" (which started it all), "the Isaac Bell adventures" and "the Fargo series". The other titles in the "NUMA files" series are: "Serpent", "Blue Gold", "Fire Ice", "White Death", "Lost City", "Polar Shift", "The Navigator", "Medusa" and "The Storm". Graham Brown is the author of "Black Rain" and "Black Sun". A pilot and an attorney, he lives in Arizona.

Clive Cussler is the author of over twenty-five internationally
bestselling books, including the Dirk Pitt adventure series, the NUMA
FILES novels and the Oregon Files Adventures.

He grew up in Alhambra, California. He later attended Pasadena City
College for two years, but then enlisted in the Air Force during the
Korean War where he served as an aircraft mechanic and flight engineer
in the Military Air Transport Service. Upon his discharge, he became a
copywriter and later creative director for two leading ad agencies. At
that time, he wrote and produced radio and television commercials that
won numerous international awards, one at the prestigious Cannes Film
Festival.

Cussler began writing in 1965 and published his first novel featuring
Dirk Pitt in 1973. His first non-fiction work, The Sea Hunters, was
released in 1996. Because of this work the Board of Governors of the
Maritime College, State University of New York considered The Sea
Hunters in lieu of a Ph.D. thesis and awarded Cussler a Doctor of
Letters degree in May of 1997. It was the first time since the College
was founded in 1874 that such a degree was bestowed.

Cussler is the founder the National Underwater & Marine Agency,
(NUMA), a non-profit organisation that dedicates itself to American
maritime and naval history. In addition to being Chairman of NUMA,
Cussler is a fellow in both the Explorers Club of New York and the
Royal Geographic Society in London.

A noted collector of classic automobiles, Cussler owns 85 of the finest
examples of custom coachwork and 50's convertibles to be found
anywhere. They are garaged near Golden, Colorado. Today, Cussler
divides his time between the mountains of Colorado and the deserts of
Arizona.